Shipping-case.



E. WALCH.

SHIPPING OASE,

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 1o, 1909.

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SHIPPING CASE.

APPVLIOATION FILED JUNE 1o, 1909.

Patented May 31, 1910.

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SHIPPING-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented BIay 31, 1910.

Application filed June 10, 1909. Serial No. 501,367.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Earn. VALCH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 13 North Fourth street, in the city of Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Shipping-Cases, of which 4the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to paper boxes,'and the principal object of the same is to provide an integral box and cover especially adapted for suits in which means is provided for suspending an article of wearing apparel within the box without danger of the same becoming creased, the suspending means being retained in position in one end of the box by means of a' string which is also adapted to serve as a fastening means for holding the box and cover in closed relation.

ln carrying` out the objects of the invention generally stated above it will, of course, be understood that the essential features thereof are susceptible of changes in details and structural arrangements, one preferred and practical embodiment of the same being shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective 'view of the 1mis a detail plan view of the blank from.

which the box is formed. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the suspending bar used lin connection with the improved box, showing the fastening and suspending string passing therethrough.

Referring to said drawings, and more particularly to Fig. 4 thereof, it will be observedthat the improved box is formed from a single piece of paper or like material 1 which is rectangularly-shapcd, the four corners of which vare provided with a short transverse slit 2 which extends inward from the longitudinal edges of the blank, and with longitudinal slits 3 which also extend inward, but from the transverse edges of the blank. Adjacent each longitudinal edge, the blank is provided with a line 4 to indicate the folding point, said fold line being in alinelnent with the longitudinal slits 3 and extending parallel with the longitudinal edges of the blank and beyond the inner end of the transverse slits 2, said line of fold being broken by means of a centrally located longitudinal slit 5 which communicates with a right angled transverse slit G extending to the longitudinal edge of the blank.

The transverse ends of the blank, adjacent their edges, are each provided with a transverse line o'f fold 7 which crosses the inner end of the slits 3 and extends to the longitudinal edges of the blank. The bla-nk is also provided with two parallel centrally loca-ted lines of fold 8-9, the line of fold '8 crossing the ends of the slits 5 and extends longitudinal edge of the blank on the fold lines 4. By means of the corner slits 3 of the blank, a flap 14 is provided for each corner of the body 12 and cover 11, said flaps being also inturned, so that when thetrans verse edges of the blank are folded on the lines 7, the box and cover will have flanges 15 and 16, the meeting ends of the flanges of which are overlapped by said inturned flaps 14.

As is clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the ac coinpanying drawings, when the cover 11 is 'closed onto the body 12, the tianges of the cover surround the flanges of the body, and the transverseI endslits 2 formed in the @anges 15 of the-cover and body aline and thereby provide a slot at each side of the box, and cover, said slots being oppositely disposed. A string or tape 17 has a hollow suspending bar or tube 18 mounted on it, said tube being of such a length as to fit transversely across the end of the box with its supporting string or tape 17 having its ends projecting beyond the box through the alined slits oiP the body and cover. Said string is then assed around the front end of the body an cover, and then twisted and passed in an 'opposite direction 'around the top and bottom of the box and cover, after which the ends thereof are knotted or otherwise secured so as to securely hold the body .and cover in closed relation.

It Will be seen from the foregoing that as the im roved box is made from a single iece of) paper or pasteboard, the same may e cheaply constructed; and the suspending bar, which may also be of paper or pasteboard and Which serves to retain agarment within the box in an evenly folded condition, may be readily removed When necessary or desirable, and further, as the means for fastening the box and cover in closed relation also serves to suspend the bar within the box, an eicient and simple suit box is profided in which the cost ofproduction is very What I claim as my invention is l. A box comprising a body provided with oppositely disposed side slits, a cover for, the body and also provided With side Vslits which aline with the slits of the body when the cover is closed thereon, a hanger bar Within the body',- "and a fastening string passing through the alined openings or slits of the body and cover and suspending said hanger bar and also serving to hold the box and cover in closed relation.

2. A box comprising a body provided With flanged side edges having slits'formed theres in, a cover also provided with slitted. side flanges p which aline With the slits of the flanges `oft-he body when the cover is closed thereon, a hanger bar Within the body, and a fastener strin passing through the slitted portions of sai flanges for suspending the bar Within the body and also serving t0 hold .the body and cover in closed relation.v

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

Witnesses:

W. D. PATTERSON, I. N. TICHENoR.

EMIL WALcH. 

